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sharken

Diablo 2 is very hard compared to Diablo III, which I find is a major selling point.

I think the waste in D4 is that there is very little replay value, only the long grind or Seasons.

But starting over and over has very little appeal, so that leaves only one option: New content released regularly.

Which sadly is not planned for D4.

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vanilla d3 was very hard, lod made me play hc exclusively

diablo III difficulty is adjustable. you can make it as hard as you like during leveling and at the endgame.

I played diablo 2 a lot when I was a kid, and really, the only hard parts were bullshit mechanics like damage immunities and iron maiden. it also had no real endgame, only mindless baalruns. ubers were only doable by a few paladin builds (with reasonable gear/effort).

The endgame was your next character (playing hardcore to spice it up). :)

I still prefer that design to pretty much everything aRPG developers have come up with as endgame in the meantime.

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